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still a few slots open for next week's course from the @knightcenterut.bsky.social

journalismcourses.org/product/adva...

the dumbest person you know is using claude to file their taxes right now

How do collaboratives track impact differently than traditional newsrooms?

Caroline Porter's session at #CJS2026 is about frameworks built specifically for collaborative work — not just reach, but real community change.

May 15 at Temple in Philly. summit.collaborativejournalism.org

Don't be a slop cannon Open source etiquette for AI-assisted contributors

A guide to contributing responsibly when you're using AI coding agents — because every pull request costs someone their time, and most open source maintainers are volunteers.

strugglestreet.substack.com/p/dont-be-a-...

Please learn how to use your computer "The number of professionals in journalism, media, communications, and academia who still don't understand how to use the very tools they depend on for their livelihood is, frankly, staggering."

One of the better things I've read recently remains the Nieman "prediction" (a plea, really) by @jamditis.bsky.social

It's legit insane that newsrooms will hire an editor for their "experience" without seeing if they know how URLs work or how to use Google Docs.

www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/plea...

And the winners! We recognized 10 outlets and journalists for the Excellence in Community News Award, plus two special honors:

🏅 Media Champion: Clyde Hughes, Front Runner New Jersey
⭐ Legacy in Journalism: Nowy Dziennik

See all 10 honorees 👇
pages.centerforcooperativemedia.org/ecm/awards.html

Gov. Mikie Sherrill: Ethnic and community media shed light on ‘untold local stories’ U.S. Sen. Andy Kim, NJ Sen. Raj Mukherji highlight the need for truthful, reliable news media at the 2026 NJ Excellence in Community Media…

Full recap — including remarks from Gov. Sherrill, Sen. Mukherji, and Sen. Kim, plus what journalists in the room had to say — is up now:

medium.com/centerforcooperativemedia/gov-mikie-sherrill-ethnic-and-community-media-shed-light-on-untold-local-stories-9d961e540195

#NJMedia #CommunityJournalism

What would it take to build a cooperative for non-editorial journalism workers?

Matthew Green and Madison Karas are exploring that question at #CJS2026 on May 15 — one of the concurrent sessions on Friday in Philly.

summit.collaborativejournalism.org

I spent the last week evolving a Claude skill then manually went through an update process on Friday. This looks like a great addition.

The new Portal North Bridge is open — Reroute NJ Phase 1 complete. Regular NJ Transit schedules resume March 15, first track on the new bridge enters service March 16.

It's over.

Starting today, March 16, the first track on the new bridge enters regular passenger service.

reroutenj.org/blog/bridge-...

The NJ Community Media awards showcased so many local outlets doing important work. Really impressive. Here is Slice of Culture winning an award for important police accountability reporting

sounds like somebody never won an award

Gov Sherrill at NJ Community Media Awards hosted by @centercoopmedia.bsky.social

2026 Collaborative Journalism Summit | 10th anniversary Join us for the 10th anniversary Collaborative Journalism Summit. May 14-15, 2026 at SERC at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.

10 years of CJS. We're back in Philadelphia — where the summit first traveled beyond Montclair — for the 10th anniversary.

May 14-15 at Temple University. ~150 seats. Register: summit.collaborativejournalism.org #CJS2026

10 years. 7 cities. We started in Montclair, went to Philly, Chicago, D.C., Detroit, Denver — and now we're back in Philadelphia for the 10th anniversary summit.

May 14-15 at Temple University. #CJS2026

summit.collaborativejournalism.org

feature card that explains how the plug-in tracks which skills are active when corrections happen and allows you to evolve those skills based on accumulated lessons per skill

AutoContext now includes skill evolution.

Check it out and install it here: skills.amditis.tech/autocontext/

Would love to know what you think!

you might! 😂

Advanced Prompt Engineering for Journalists

I'm doing another MOOC with the @knightcenterut.bsky.social next month for journalists/editors/media people.

journalismcourses.org/product/adva...

Lots of tips and ideas in here on how to put together an autonomous Claude Code setup that can do some of your grunt work *in an organizational setting*.
(With some thought given to system security.)

Claude Chode: An autonomous Claude Code system running on $700 of Raspberry Pi gear I named it 'Claude Chode' because I thought it was funny at 2am. It stuck.

I named it 'Claude Chode' because I thought it was funny.

strugglestreet.substack.com/p/claude-cho...

Making it easier to attend CJS2026 | 2026 Collaborative Journalism Summit Work trip approval documents, schedule in multiple formats, and everything else you need to plan your trip to Philadelphia.

Planning to attend #CJS2026 as a work trip?

Here are some resources and templates to make the reimbursement and travel auth process easier.

Let us know what else we should add to this kit!

summit.collaborativejournalism.org/updates/work...

GitHub - amkessler/nicar2026_skills_in_codex_claude: Materials for NICAR 2026 session on using "skills" to aid in more reliable, reproducible analysis tasks when using Codex and Claude Code Materials for NICAR 2026 session on using "skills" to aid in more reliable, reproducible analysis tasks when using Codex and Claude Code - amkessler/nicar2026_skills_in_codex_claude

Interested in using AI skills for Claude/Codex in journalism? Check out @akesslerdc.bsky.social 's #NICAR26 session repo: github.com/amkessler/ni...

Another great resource: @jamditis.bsky.social 's skills collection for journalists/researchers/academics github.com/amkessler/ni...

oh wow thank you!! pro tip: my favs are the pdf-playground plugin and the one-way door skill/hook.

thank you for sharing!! <3

🗝️ Newsroom Digest: A look back at 2025 in NJ local news PLUS: Recent updates from around the local news ecosystem

🗝️ Newsroom Digest: A look back at 2025 in NJ local news

PLUS: The new Excellence in Community Media Awards

mailchi.mp/centerforcoo...

👀 First look at the schedule for the 2026 Collaborative Journalism Summit Keynotes confirmed, sessions set, and lightning talks announced — start planning your two days in Philadelphia

👀 First look at the schedule for the 2026 Collaborative Journalism Summit

The 10th anniversary #CJS2026 session lineup is starting to come together!

mailchi.mp/collaborativ...

Why we built Reroute NJ Five free tools in 11 languages to help NJ Transit riders navigate the Portal Bridge cutover (Feb 15 – Mar 15, 2026).

Why we built Reroute NJ reroutenj.org/blog/why-we-... by @jamditis.bsky.social

Why I built a keyboard for the CLI renaissance -- KeyJawn AI tools brought millions of new users to the terminal. Mobile keyboards haven't caught up.

Claude Code, OpenClaw, Gemini CLI, Codex — these tools live in a shell. If you want to use them, you need a terminal.

The phone keyboards they’re using weren’t built for this.

keyjawn.amditis.tech/blog/why-i-b...

Why I built a keyboard for the CLI renaissance -- KeyJawn AI tools brought millions of new users to the terminal. Mobile keyboards haven't caught up.

couldn't find a mobile keyboard with basic terminal keys so i made my own

keyjawn.amditis.tech/blog/why-i-b...

Reroute NJ — Navigate the Portal Bridge cutover Free tools for NJ Transit riders affected by the Portal North Bridge cutover (Feb 15 – Mar 15, 2026).

Waking up to NJ Transit Portal Bridge problems?

@jamditis.bsky.social has you covered. Here's how to navigate a month of potentially hellacious delays.

Civic coding at its best: reroutenj.org

New: embed Reroute NJ on your website Four embed formats, a visual configurator, and PNG export for newsrooms covering the Portal Bridge cutover.

The Portal Bridge cutover started TODAY.

If you cover transit in New Jersey — or if you run a community site, town Facebook page, or commuter forum — you can now put Reroute NJ tools directly on your website.

reroutenj.org/blog/new-emb...